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Let's say you lie on your resume. For example, for a job posting for night auditor. It says you must have experience. If you put that you do have experience and put a random hotel name, and hope that they don't call that company, but they call the company and realize that you haven't worked there, would they just not hire you, or would they report you to the police for lying so that I would get trouble with the law?
Or, let's say they hired you without checking the facts, and then they fire you from the job after you've been working for a while because they find out, would they report you to the police or would your SSN be stained with having lied on a resume, so that when hiring managers check your SSN they can see that you have criminal record of lying on resume and would not hire you? Or, can you say to the next potential employer that you quit on your own accord to look for other job opportunities?
Don't lie about something that can be proven untrue.
That's it. End of story.
I don't recommend lying. But, darn it people, be smart about it -- IF you do.
It's against the law to impersonate a doctor, or a policeman, etc.
But there's no law that says you can't lie on your resume.
You won't get arrested. But you also won't get the job.
I would tend to agree with that statement until I heard about that case of the crime lab worker that was arrested last year. She had listed that she had a Masters on her resume and application, which turned out to be false. Now I'm not sure how accurate the media reports were at the time, but they implied that the fraud charges against her were directly tied to her false resume/application. To me that is an extreme stretching/twisting of the fraud statutes, but who knows. Maybe it was because she was in a sensitive law enforcement type position. If you lie at a private company I doubt they could do much about it or would any legal entity pursue it.
I knew a teacher who did that a couple of years ago and they let her finish the school year but I imagine it was excruciating for her b/c a lot of people knew. She told them that on her first job there was no computer and that the school building had burned down and her records with it. It was easy to trace b/c DESE would have that record. Then someone came in and said she'd been a stripper but I have no idea if that was true.
How is lying on a resume even possible with the reference check and criminal background process?
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